To a Distant Island

To a Distant Island
Author: James McConkey
Publisher: Paul Dry Books
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2000-11-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0966491351

In 1890, Anton Chekhov, already a prominent Russian literary figure, travelled 6,500 miles to Sakhalin island, off the coast of Siberia. Willing visitors to this island were rare; rather, its inhabitants were people who had been sent there: prisoners and their families, guards, soldiers, and doctors. What was it that Chekhov sought on this terrible island? Almost a century later, James McConkey traveled to Italy and researched Chekhov's letters, memoirs, and an account of his journey to Sakhalin island. McConkey recreates that journey, weaving it with his own and telling two stories that reveal the peculiar and hidden forces that shape our lives.

To a Distant Island

To a Distant Island
Author: James McConkey
Publisher: Plume
Total Pages:
Release: 1986-09-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9780525482567

In 1890, Anton Chekhov, already a prominent Russian literary figure, traveled 6,500 miles to Sakhalin island, off the coast of Siberia. Willing visitors to this island were rare; rather, its inhabitants were people who had been sent there: prisoners and their families, guards, soldiers, and doctors. What was it that Chekhov sought on this terrible island? Almost a century later, while on sabbatical in Italy after a troubled academic year, McConkey discovers in the letters and memories of Chekhov's journey a kindred and healing spirit. McConkey recreates that journey, weaving it with his own and telling two stories that reveal the peculiar and hidden forces that shape our lives.

Distant Island

Distant Island
Author: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1989-12-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780002229197

Distant Islands

Distant Islands
Author: Daniel H. Inouye
Publisher: Nikkei in the Americas
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2018-11-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1607327929

"The turn of the century New York Japanese American community was a composite of several micro communities divided along status, class, geographic, and religious lines. Using primary sources Inouye tells the stories of the professional elites, small business owners, working-class, laborers, and students from these communities"--Provided by publisher.

Toward the Distant Islands

Toward the Distant Islands
Author: Hayden Carruth
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2006
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1556592361

Collects works by American poet Hayden Carruth, including lyrics; narratives; comic, meditative, and erotic poems; and reflections on the natural world.

On a Distant Island

On a Distant Island
Author: Denis Baker
Publisher: David Ling Publishing
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2002
Genre: Auckland (N.Z.)
ISBN: 9780908990795

Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands

Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands
Author: Judith Schalansky
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2014-11-12
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0143126679

A lovely small-trim edition of the award-winning Atlas of Remote Islands The Atlas of Remote Islands, Judith Schalansky’s beautiful and deeply personal account of the islands that have held a place in her heart throughout her lifelong love of cartography, has captured the imaginations of readers everywhere. Using historic events and scientific reports as a springboard, she creates a story around each island: fantastical, inscrutable stories, mixtures of fact and imagination that produce worlds for the reader to explore. Gorgeously illustrated and with new, vibrant colors for the Pocket edition, the atlas shows all fifty islands on the same scale, in order of the oceans they are found. Schalansky lures us to fifty remote destinations—from Tristan da Cunha to Clipperton Atoll, from Christmas Island to Easter Island—and proves that the most adventurous journeys still take place in the mind, with one finger pointing at a map.